In 1757 Voltaire came to reside at Lausanne; and although he took but little notice of the young Englishman of twenty, who eagerly sought and easily obtained an introduction, the establishment of the theatre at Monrepos, where the brilliant versifier himself declaimed before select audiences his own productions on the stage, had no small influence in fortifying Gibbon's taste for the French theatre, and in at the same time abating that "idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman." [Please select]
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The fickle king abandoned for a second time the psalm versifier, who never again returned to France. [Please select]
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There could be no stronger proof of this than the occupation of the throne of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, by the arch-versifier Pope. [Please select]
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The reader may observe that the stanzas are reasonably smooth, and mark him a tolerable versifier. [Please select]
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Dryden in his preface to some of his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, calls him the best versifier of the last age. [Please select]
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(_Areopagitica_) When Wordsworth came forward at the end of the eighteenth century with his famous reform of the language of English poetry, the Miltonic diction was the current coin paid out by every versifier. [Please select]
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The work of those worthy, painstaking saints we will neither quote nor criticise,--saying only of each reverend versifier, "Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical." [Please select]
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